Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading
www.wired.co.uk
Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points as the labor dispute rages on.
  • HairHeel@programming.devEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Three days later, on November 20, the Seko union, which represents postal workers, will stop delivering letters, spare parts, and pallets to all of Tesla’s addresses in Sweden.

    It seems troubling that there aren’t regulations in place requiring postal workers to deliver mail indiscriminately.

    What if the postal union decided not to deliver mail-in ballots they thought might support a policy they disagreed with, for example?

    • Chahk@beehaw.org
      17·
      1 year ago

      Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, but the postal thing has already happened during the USA 2020 election.

      • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgM
        2·
        1 year ago

        Hi, can you clarify what you mean or provide a source? I’m not away of any widespread examples of this but it could be that I’m misunderstanding or misremembering.

        • Chahk@beehaw.org
          9·
          1 year ago

          Louis DeJoy, the U.S. Postmaster General who was installed by Trump in May 2020, spent the months prior to the November elections undermining voting by mail and sabotaging the Postal Service. There were multiple lawsuits about it.

        • abhibeckert@beehaw.org
          2·
          1 year ago

          The Trump government shut down automated mail sorting machines, cut overtime for workers (so if they weren’t keeping up with the workload, they’d just stop delivering mail instead of working a longer shift), replaced a bunch of air mail delivery routes with road ones, added delays to re-delivery attempts when a letter couldn’t be delivered and removed mail collection boxes.

          Supposedly all of this would “improve the efficiency” of the postal service. Yeah right.

  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
    18·
    1 year ago

    The delicious irony here is that U.S. corporations want the government out of regulating worker rights and company obligations, and having actually encountered that, Tesla said, “no, we don’t like how that turned out, either.”

    • magnetosphere@kbin.social
      37·
      1 year ago

      Sweden doesn’t have laws that set working conditions, such as a minimum wage. Instead these rules are dictated by collective agreements, a type of contract that defines the benefits employees are entitled to, such as wages and working hours. For five years, industrial workers’ union IF Metall, which represents Tesla mechanics, has been trying to persuade the company to sign a collective agreement. When Tesla refused, the mechanics decided to strike at the end of October. Then they asked fellow Swedish unions to join them.

      • Stillhart@lemm.ee
        6·
        1 year ago

        Weird how reading the article will sometimes give more information than just reading the headline, isn’t it?

        • magnetosphere@kbin.social
          6·
          1 year ago

          I was thinking the same thing.

          I resisted the urge to make a comment about it because honestly, sometimes I’ve been guilty of it, too. Also, some articles are so full of useless, unnecessary bullshit I can’t really blame people for not wanting to read them. So I just copied, pasted, and shut up. :)